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deem

/deem/US // dim //UK // (diːm) //

认为,推定,认为是,认定

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to form or have an opinion; judge; think: He did not deem lightly of the issue.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to hold as an opinion; think; regard as: He deemed it wise to refuse the offer.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbregard, consider
Forms: deemed, deeming

Examples

  • Governments, too, may take action to boost domestic production of goods that are deemed essential or important to national competitiveness, reshaping industries in ways that market forces alone would not.

  • What is considered appropriate for women in one culture might be deemed completely inappropriate in another.

  • Denying justice to victims of police brutality is an inescapable outcome when the word of a law enforcement officer is categorically deemed more credible than that of a victim.

  • It helped that Target has been deemed an essential retailer by selling groceries and staples.

  • Thompson, for instance, said “a direct purchase was deemed not the best option for the city.”

  • How does the world owe you a private car, priced as you deem acceptable, that didn't exist five years ago?

  • You rigidly avoid any food you deem to be “unhealthy,” such as those containing fat, preservatives, additives or animal products.

  • The panelists then proceed to screen out anyone they deem unfit for marriage.

  • Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to improve institutions we deem defective.

  • One can hardly pay literature a greater compliment than to deem it dangerous, be it said even in passing.

  • This rather is, I should deem, the more perilous, and a plainer and better object for philosophical attack.

  • Again, they deem it wise to get a colour at any price, which can only be done in our day by the use of spirit varnish.

  • She did not deem it worth while to go in search of any of the fashionable acquaintances from whom she had withdrawn herself.

  • All this sounds like a chapter from the dark ages, of long, long ago, and we do not deem such things possible now.

  • But why deem any argument necessary to show the unrighteousness of colonization?